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2008-04-03 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Fred 2008-04-03 12:25|| || Front Page|| [11129 views ] Top

#1 Umm, Howie? If you're planning on giving the nomination to Obamarama before the ~~entertainment/fight is over~~ convention even starts, better watch ~~out for the Hilldabeest~~ your back. Is your will made out?

Just sayin'....

Posted by Barbara Skolaut">Barbara Skolaut 2008-04-03 12:35|| http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/]">[http://ariellestjohndesigns.com/] 2008-04-03 12:35|| Front Page Top

#2 Which is why John McCain isn't committed to a VP, till the Donks show their hand. There are so many ways to leverage the Donks in this atmosphere. Does the name J C Watts ring a bell? Heh.

Posted by Procopius2k 2008-04-03 12:45|| 2008-04-03 12:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Wait... are they gonna "fix" the vote, or "fix" the process.

I'm so confused.

Posted by DarthVader">DarthVader 2008-04-03 12:48|| 2008-04-03 12:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Darth, yes.

Posted by Rambler in California">Rambler in California 2008-04-03 12:55|| 2008-04-03 12:55|| Front Page Top

#5 It's been pointed out that the pundits have nada, zero, nothing to say of value when they begin saying things like:

"What Howard Dean should do...", or
"What Harry Reid should do...", etc.

It means that they are utterly clueless. They might as well write "I am filling empty copy space."

Posted by Anonymoose 2008-04-03 13:05|| 2008-04-03 13:05|| Front Page Top

#6 JC Watts:

Character does count. For too long we have gotten by in a society that says the only thing right is to get by and the only thing wrong is to get caught. Character is doing what's right when nobody is looking.

This is a guy we FredHeads were pushing Thompson to grab as his VP candiddate.

Anotehr quote:

If you are explaining, you are losing.

And he has taken the GOP to task in the past for its poor approach to black voters.

He is only 50. Making him a solid balancer to McCain and a great potential president for 2 terms.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-04-03 13:31|| 2008-04-03 13:31|| Front Page Top

#7 Hit enter too soon

Watts: America needs to be a place where all of us can feel a part of the American dream. But it will not happen by dividing us into racial groups. It will not happen by trying to turn the poor against the rich. It will not happen by asking Americans to accept what is immoral and wrong in the name of tolerance.

Posted by OldSpook 2008-04-03 13:32|| 2008-04-03 13:32|| Front Page Top

#8 The Democrats are going to curse the day they handed this nitwit Dean the keys to DNC headquarters, if they haven't already.

I hope they lay the bulk of the blame for this debacle at his feet because that's where much of it belongs. Watching him on TV as he tries to talk his way out of this mess while desperately trying to shift focust to the Republicans has gone from comical, to tiresome, to downright embarrassing.

I can barely watch, anymore. Well, that's not entirely true. I can watch. It's just that I feel like I'm watching a train wreck and finding way too much joy and satisfaction in it. And that makes me feel all weird inside.

Posted by eltoroverde 2008-04-03 13:45|| 2008-04-03 13:45|| Front Page Top

#9 Haven't heard about JC for some time. He'd be an excellent choice.

Posted by rjschwarz 2008-04-03 13:50|| 2008-04-03 13:50|| Front Page Top

#10 I agree with everything 'Spook said about Mr. Watts. Plus, J.C.'s got one of the coolest names around:

In his book What Color Is a Conservative: My Life and My Politics, Watts explained that the J.C. doesn't stand for anything, but he would often tell people that it was "Julius Caesar" as a joke, although the Congressional Biographical Directory lists Watts' official name as "Julius Caesar Watts, Jr.".

Posted by Mike 2008-04-03 13:56|| 2008-04-03 13:56|| Front Page Top

#11 Howard Dean has a plan that will produce a nominee before his party's convention in August, avoiding what he fears could be a "really ugly and nasty" fiasco.

Howard, you should know about ugly and nasty fiascos. I think it's already ugly and nasty from what I can tell--but I don't mind an ugly and nasty fiasco in Denver in August. Please pass the popcorn. How about another brewsky to go with it?

Posted by JohnQC 2008-04-03 14:00|| 2008-04-03 14:00|| Front Page Top

#12 ...avoiding what he fears could be a "really ugly and nasty" fiasco.

Ah, c'mon, Howie. We all got faith in you. If anybody can make this thing even worse, it's you.

Posted by tu3031 2008-04-03 14:08|| 2008-04-03 14:08|| Front Page Top

#13 "As for Florida and Michigan, Mr. Dean is making it clear to party leaders that once the nomination race is all but over, there will be an agreement to seat both delegations under a proportional formula still to be worked out."

I think I got it. First the Super Delegates choose the nominee then the presumptive nominee himself gets to decide how to seat Florida and Michigan. Whoaclever one Howie. Itll be almost as if the votes in those two states counted. Sooolets get this straight then. Under your plan Obama wins, the DNC picks up the convention liquor tab for the disenfranchised delegates, and then the rank and file Obama supporters get to write the checks to cover the Clintons campaign debt. Brilliantbut do you think anyone will notice.

Posted by DepotGuy 2008-04-03 14:33|| 2008-04-03 14:33|| Front Page Top

#14 The scenario Mr. Dean and party leaders fear most is a bitter political floor fight in Denver that will deeply divide the party and send a message to the country that if the Democrats can't govern themselves, how can they govern the country?

Tell me bout it howie...thank God you are not in control of the entire country. And yes, there is a reason to wait before declaring which nominee to support - some call it 'increasing stock value'. Hey, if you choose your nominee before the end of all the primaries, are you not doing to those remaining states - who played by the rules - what you are about to aquit those states which broke the rules; that is (what do they call it) condisinfranchisementadoodlebadstuff?

"We're going to go all the way behind the curtains! Then we're going to choose your nominee for you! Then we're going to go to do a real cheesy kumbayeah in Denver! Yeaarrrgh!"

Posted by swksvolFF 2008-04-03 14:35|| 2008-04-03 14:35|| Front Page Top

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Posted by JFM">JFM 2008-04-03 14:37|| 2008-04-03 14:37|| Front Page Top

#16 Hey, Dean and the Moveon people bought the Democratic party. It's theirs now, they'll do with it as they wish. And being blunt and rude and disqualifying people with no thought for the consequences is exactly what those Moveon people do. No horse-trading, we're going to scream our way to victory.

Posted by gromky 2008-04-03 15:02|| 2008-04-03 15:02|| Front Page Top

#17 You got it, swksvolFF. Under Howie's plan, the New England Patriots won the Super Bowl. They were ahead in the third quarter, after all.

Posted by Steve White">Steve White 2008-04-03 16:50|| 2008-04-03 16:50|| Front Page Top

#18 "Hot time in Denver this summer! YEEEAAAAAAGGGHH!"

Go for it, Howie! You can DO it!

Posted by Pancho Elmeck8414 2008-04-03 18:31|| 2008-04-03 18:31|| Front Page Top

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